Tanker vs Cab - What's the difference?
tanker | cab |
A vessel used to transport large quantities of liquid.
A tank truck (US) or fuel tanker, petrol tanker, road tanker (UK)
(military) Member of a tank crew, or of an armoured unit.
A longboard.
A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As a verb tanker
is .As an initialism cab is
(us) (civil aeronautics board).tanker
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Noun
(en noun)- I swung the tanker around just in time to take off with the lip
Synonyms
* (military) tankman, tankist * (military) trooper, crewman, armoured soldier, armored soldier * (military) zipperhead (Canadian military slang)Derived terms
* oil tanker * petrol tanker Truck with a container for transporting fuel.cab
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Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!